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AIR @ Third Coast Part II: Radio Futures, The German Forest and Candy Rain
By
Jessica Clark
/ October 08, 2012
[<a href="
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" target="_blank">View the story "AIR @ Third Coast Highlights: Part II" on Storify</a>]<h1>AIR @ Third Coast Highlights: Part II</h1><h2>The best of Sunday's conference coverage from AIR Ambassadors, New Voices Scholars, and Media Strategist Jessica Clark:</h2><p>Storified by AIR · Mon, Oct 08 2012 09:25:01</p><div>A slow start for some of our more more festive conference-goers...</div><div>Rise and shine, party animals! #TCconf #airmediaJasmin López </div><div>OK! Caffeinated and on to morning sessions:</div><div>You don't need to beat people over the head with experts to get a point across. Glynn Washington Rocks the Funky Story at #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>You need to aim for the heart in your storytelling. Glynn Washington of
http://snapjudgement.org
presenting at #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>Glynn Washington of Snap Judgement; The difference between a great story and a mediocre story... #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>... is often the first half hour you spend with someone getting them comfortable with the microphone. #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>
.@GlynnWashington
wants you to be left with a question at the end of a story. How would I deal with that situation? #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>Radio=captivating you in the moment. Audio=bringing you into a world. Chemistry of Sound. #airmedia #tcconfjulie caine</div><div>The beat thing I've heard at Third Coast: 1 min 45 of pigs. Worth the price of admission! #airmedia #tcconf @paolopp @KALWNews @audiographjulie caine</div><div>New Voices reflect:</div><div>Proud. #airmedia #tcconf #pubmedia @ Medill School of Journalism
http://instagr.am/p/QfI_7GRp66/Jasmin
López </div><div>Best experience at #TCconf : New Voice scholars discussing community responsibility, expanding our reach, and creating access #airmediaJasmin López </div><div>It's about "Getting your work to the communities it's about/for" @HyattHyattHyatt #airmedia #TCconfJasmin López </div><div>Idea for next conference: laptop beauty contest!</div><div>Laptop stickers #TCConf cc: @WBEZNews @radioambulante @AIRmedia @kickstarter @RedBull3Style @Vocalo @offspring
http://pic.twitter.com/tAojOIP5Luis
Antonio Perez</div><div>More session insights:</div><div>Robert Smith says deadline reporters are hunters. To get a story, they have to hunt it, kill it & drag it back #airmedia #tcconf @KALWNewsjulie caine</div><div>Write well. Not too much. Sound like yourself. John Biewen of @CDSduke at #tcconf on Sure-Handedness in radio. #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>Structure is how you create a radio piece that knows what it is. John Biewen at #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>Write the host intro first and you'll figure out what the piece is; and what it isn't. John Biewen #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>John Biewen has never had someone complain that he he made them sound coherent. Jst stay true to meaning. #tcconf #airmedia #editingcolmcoyne</div><div>Being good at deadlines=even tighter deadlines. There is no reward in heaven for being good at this #airmedia #tcconf @KALWNewsjulie caine</div><div>Localore session take two: Diaz-Cortes—you get to a point in a big project when you have to trust it to tell you what it needs to be #TCconfAIR</div><div>A full house for the Zeega gather-round, where Kara Oehler and Lindsey Wagner live demo their interactive storytelling platform, now in beta. Learn more at zeega.org:</div><div>At the Zeega gather-round—come on by and learn about this cutting-edge immersive production platform!
http://bit.ly/Q53pHD
#TCconfAIR</div><div>@karaoehler is the Editor-in Chief of @zeega and is explaining how it supports new forms of storytelling & creative expression #TCconfAIR</div><div>Eight of the 10 #Localore projects are working with @Zeega to build interactive doc sites:
http://bit.ly/RJYf64
#TCconfAIR</div><div>@karaoehler of @zeega : What is too much to express and what is not enough? How to tell stories that allow people to pay attention? #TCconfAIR</div><div>@karaoehler of @zeega : Sound permeates space; not boxed like a screen. How to transcend current interfaces to deepen story? #TCconfAIR</div><div>@karaoehler So @Zeega tries to translate *experience* of sound to the web, not just audio but the sense of engulfment & revelation #TCconfAIR</div><div>@karaoehler — @zeega for building participatory projects, not just closed. Inspiration— earlier AIR project
http://bit.ly/tx5wY
#TCconfAIR</div><div>@karaoehler —Mapping Main Street was part of MQ2, a CPB-funded AIR initiative that led into #Localore:
http://bit.ly/Q56Xto
#TCconfAIR</div><div>@karaoehler —One of the key insights of @zeega is that participation is authored, and they are creating frameworks for engagement #TCconfAIR</div><div>@karaoehler —Example of Zeega in action, #Localore project Planet Takeout:
http://bit.ly/RJZpPe
produced by Val Wang #TCconfAIR</div><div>@karaoehler —giving an "under-the-hood" tour of the @zeega platform. Media library ingests content from across the social web #TCconfAIR</div><div>@karaoehler Building a Halloween-themed @Zeega production to demonstrate dynamic remixing possibilities. Fun! #TCCconfAIR</div><div>@karaoehler Has room singing first part of Indiana Jones theme as example of near-llive migration of audio from SoundCloud to @zeega #TCconfAIR</div><div>@karaoehler Wins the crowd over by mixing a capella Indiana Jones w/photos from this project:
http://bit.ly/Q5ckJ4
@zeega #TCconfAIR</div><div>@karaoehler Says @zeega has been at lots of film festivals this year, which is cool b/c she gets to proselytize audio #TCconfAIR</div><div>A few more tips on pitching from day two of the Pitch Perfect session:</div><div>Pitch Panel 2 with Anna Sussman, Jeremy Skeet and Tom Cole taking pitches right now. #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>Have to know the end of story before we accept it. They'll work with you on that. Sussman of Snap Judgment @ pitch panel. #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>MT @DIYgirl "Where does it land?" Key question from the pitch panel to a producer. #TCConf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>I need to sell your story to a show producer. You need to give me a peg to work with. Tom Cole of NPR advises a pitcher @ #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>A phone call is fine but best to pitch by email. 1 paragraph. People generally won't read a 3 page email. #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>Too much advance research can make project uneconomical for you; Jeremy Skeet. Pitch with some knowledge, then dig in. #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>Tom Cole wants you to be able to answer his key questions when you pitch though. So the research thing is a balance. #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>A paragraph at the top, then more. But Jeremy Skeet of BBC will decide to read more based on opening paragraph #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>"It's quite brutal". Jeremy Skeet of World Service decides on a pitch quickly. So open well! #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>Write your opening paragraph like the host intro. Tom Cole of NPR on how to craft that crucial opening. #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>Pitching to
http://Snapjudgment.org
? Include the ending! Otherwise Anna Sussman won't be able to take it any further. #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>In the closing session, Jad Abumrad of Radiolab takes us on a walk through the scary forest of making:</div><div>Final session with @jadabumrad to close out with sounds and notions that have obsessed him and caught his ear #TCconfAIR</div><div>Start with something that you love, and then figure the rest out. @JadAbumrad presents a few of his favourite things. #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>@jadabumrad Fundamental question when you put a mic in front of someone: "Who are you?" #TCconfAIR</div><div>In Evanston, @jadabumrad presents at #tcconf
http://twitpic.com/b222ek
#airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>@jadabumrad Talking about "decorating" himself with different voices of those he admired as he learned in order to find his own #TCconfAIR</div><div>@jadabumrad In every piece you do, he told himself, you should include 3 seconds of your own voice #TCconfAIR</div><div>@jadabumrad When you edit a piece, there is murder at every moment, but these crucial little digressions of self need to stay in #TCconfAIR</div><div>Have enough 'littleshit' in your story? It's the things that happen around the edges that can make a scene live. #tcconf #airmedia #jadcolmcoyne</div><div>@jadabumrad Our jobs hinge on us not asking the questions we're asking but allowing the questions to possess us—to be the question #TCconfAIR</div><div>Scott Carrier's Running After Antelopes on TAL an 'imprinting moment' for @jadabumrad. 'I'll follow this show anywhere' #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>@jadabumrad "Am I putting all of my nerve endings into this?" #TCconfAIR</div><div>@jadabumrad Advice: make stuff, get lost #TCconfAIR</div><div>'The German Forest' is where you end up sometimes when making radio. The scary place. #tcconf #airmedia #jadabumradcolmcoyne</div><div>'Wagner gave me PTSD!' @jadabumrad at #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>@jadabumrad The german forest changes a bit. At first it's terrfying, but at a certain point terror gets reframed as a tool #TCconfAIR</div><div>@jadabumrad The german forest is the place you need to go to access your creative potential, your next self #TCconfAIR</div><div>@jadabumrad The gift of this work is to push you to a new answer—you have to feel stupid and exposed #TCconfAIR</div><div>@jadabumrad The sound design of Radiolab operates in part to embody and concretize abstract science topics, make them visceral #TCconfAIR</div><div>Fear that the work is too big & it'll never get made never goes away. Learn that you -will- make it through. - @jadabumrad #tcconf #airmediacolmcoyne</div><div>#tcconf Glad that @JadAbumrad talked about that cringey @radiolab episode. Could feel his sense of vulnerability about it. #HasToHurtToGrowLuis Antonio Perez</div><div>In the closing sesh at #TCconf, @JadAbumrad thanks Johanna Zorn and @jatomic for making @ThirdCoastFest the best thing ever for 12 years. XKara Oehler</div><div>At the Third Coast awards ceremony, the Kitchen Sisters show us why collaboration is king:</div><div>It's not everyday the kitchen sisters throw candy at you @Transom_org #radiostory #tcconf
http://pic.twitter.com/Vruitrw3Bianca
Giaever</div><div>Woke at an ungodly hour to watch her take gold + now I can say she taught me how to jab. Thank you @ClaressaShields and #TCconf #airmediaJasmin López </div><div>Truth! RT @lindsaymic Claressa Shields taught me how to jab and it rained candy. I would say, all in all, a good end to Third Coast. #TCconfDésirée</div><div>"I never got anything less than gold" - Claressa Shields #tcconf
http://pic.twitter.com/Y3GgbghRSam
Greenspan</div><div>Parting is such sweet sorrow...</div><div>such fun at #tcconf...! so much to mull now. thank you #airmedia!!Annie Murphy</div><div>Truth "@mirabw: The past two days @ThirdCoastFest have been so nourishing, it's gonna take me at least a month to digest. #tcconf #audiofoodAmericanStudentRadio</div><div>Man, I met a bunch of smart/motivated/thoughtful people at @ThirdCoastFest on and off the panels. That was illmatic. Thx #airmedia #tcconfJorge Valencia</div><div>Early bird flight to LA. Thank you #TCconf #airmedia New Voices + all the brilliant radio folks in attendance. So good to know you!Jasmin López </div><div>Back in NYC. Inspired 2 get my audio after fantastic time w folks who rock. Proud to call you colleagues! #TCConf Thx @airmedia @prxAmy Costello</div><div>Proud to be among this cohort at #TCConf. Thx #airmedia for the illuminating experience!
http://instagr.am/p/QhUo3_q24I/D
ésirée</div><div>Big thanks to the conference organizers. Time for you to sleep for a week!</div><div>was it all a dream? #tcconfThird Coast Festival</div>
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